PREFACE PART ONE THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM I WASHINGTON IRVING(1783-1859) Rip Van Winkle II RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) Nature (VIII Prospects) III NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864) The Scarlet Letter (Chapters 1, 17, and 18) IV WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) Song of Myself (20, 30, 31, and 4G) I Hear America Singing I Hear It Was Charged Against Me I Saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing One's-Self I Sing PART TWO THE AGE OF REALISM V MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Chapters 16 and 31) VI HENRY JAMES (1843-1916) The Art of Fiction (Excerpt) VII O. HENRY (1862-1910) The Gift of the Magi The Cop and the Anthem VIII THEODORE DREISER ( 1871- 1945) An American Tragedy (Book Two: Chapter 47) PART THREE MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE IX ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) Mending Wall The Road Not Taken Fire and Ice Dust of Snow Design Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening X T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Tradition and the Individual Talent XI M SINCLAIR LEWIS (1885-1951) Babbitt (Chapters 9 and 25) EUGENE O'NEILL (1888-1953) The Hairy Ape (Scenes 2, 3, and 8) XII F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) The Great Gatsby (Chapter 7) XIV WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962) …… 后記